This has been another great week at RCHS. So many things have taken place during the annual FFA week and it was topped off with a lunch that FFA provided for the entire staff. I continue to get impressed with our students and what they do on a daily basis. I love our music department and want to give high praise to T.R. Campbell, Heather Campbell, and Dr. David Doyle. I love that our pep band ALWAYS shows up! Girls games, boys games, and tournament games. The boys Madrigals sang the National Anthem this past week at a basketball game. These three educators and our Ag department made up of Blair Orme and Holly Wagner do so many great things for our kids that go way beyond the classroom. Countless hours go into what they do. Hours that nobody sees or even knows about. I thank all five of you for your leadership and your willingness to do what you do for the kids. RCHS is blessed to have you in the family!

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Rushville Consolidated High School is excited to offer our Criminal Justice program starting in the 2024-25 School year! This program will be housed at RCHS next school year and it will move off campus for the 2025-26 school year. Criminal Justice will be a two year program geared towards juniors and seniors. Next year, students will take two consecutive blocks of classes for the program at RCHS, Principles of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Fundamentals. During year 1 of the program, these classes will not be everyday. Due to the block schedule at RCHS, the classes will be every other day. Year two of the program will have classes everyday and will consist of Corrections and Cultural Awareness and the Criminal Justice Capstone Class.

Students that complete the Criminal Justice program will have opportunities for careers as:

Police Officer, Correctional Officer, Detective, Probation Officer, Private Investigator, Correctional Counselor, Security Guard, Bailiff, and many more.

19 RCHS students will be graduating with the Indiana College Core in the graduating class of 2024. This can equate to HUGE savings depending on where these students chose to go to school. Collectively, this could equate to over $800,000 worth of savings! Any Indiana public college (and now U Indy!) will accept the ICC as the general education block of courses! To find a rough estimate of savings, take the cost per credit hour and multiply it by 30!

Hannah Lemmons - Shout out to Jennie Tague for being the new Karmen Gulde in the best way - IYKYK :)

Brad Lawler - Shout out to Mr. Orme and Mrs. Wagner for being the leaders of such an AWESOME organization!!! The FFA organization builds our future leaders and Rushville has one of the best chapters in the Nation!!

Brad Lawler - Shot out to our FFA for providing the teachers and staff lunch during National FFA Week!!! Very much appreciated by all of us!!

Zach Burchett - Shout Out to the entire staff for coming together on the roll-out of the new pass system, and working through some early bumps in the road. Thank you to everyone who called and asked questions, it only helps us to become more knowledgeable about the new system. I love getting to come to work everyday, and getting to work with this team #WeareRushville

Shea Gerrian - Shout Out to the entire for coming together on the roll-out of the new pass system, and working through some early bumps in the road. Thank you to everyone who called and asked questions, it only helps us to become more knowledgeable about the new system. I love getting to come to work everyday, and getting to work with this team #WeareRushville

Curtis Mock - Shout out to FFA and Mr. Orme. 75 plus at the theater and they were pretty good. Everyone

spills popcorn!! Thanks to Jenna, Gentri and Meredith for staying and helping clean up.

Curtis Mock - A shout out to Paul Nichols. He is great at announcing at home events, plus he helps others

Mellissa Winkler - Shout Out to Samantha Wagner - She attends so many athletic events to take pictures and is always so great about sharing the pictures!

Mellissa Winkler - Shout Out to Brett Smith - His class came over to the gym and put together scooters for Mrs. Cox's PE classes!

Mellissa Winkler - Shout Out to TR & Heather Campbell - Our band always sounds the best each and every night. They are also willing to travel anywhere in the state during the IHSAA Tournament!

Mellissa Winkler - Shout Out to Coach Kristin Sliger & the RCHS Cheerleaders - Again we have the best cheerleaders and coaches who make sure that we have cheerleaders at all the home and away games (majority of other schools don't have cheerleaders on the road).

Mellissa Winkler - Shout Out to the Maintenance Department - They came in early Saturday morning and cleared the sidewalks and parking lots for us to be able to have a boys game that night!

Hannah Lemmons - Shout out to Brittney Corum for being such a sweet supporter of the speech team...she's helping her class make goodie bags for the speech team for sectionals on Saturday! She's also giving up her Saturday to judge!

Megan Davis - Shout out to Nan for helping get the online tools I need to work with my students!

Megan Davis - Shout out to Nicholls for keeping me in the loop with our students and their needs. I appreciate knowing what is going on so that I can better accommodate our students and their needs at that time.

Amy Fox - Shout Out to Blair Orme, Holly Wagner, and all of FFA for a fun theme filled week and a great lunch from Kopper Kettle!

Isaac Sliger - Shout out to Amy Fox, Lindsay Tillison, and Jennifer Teague for their continuous hard work and innovative ideas for our school and kids!

This week was FFA week and the Rushville members did a lot of fun things together such as movie night, Ag Olympics, and the District FFA Volleyball tournament. The one thing that sticks out to me among all of these things is the way these kids show appreciation for others and give back to those who have given so much to them. On Thursday the FFA provided lunch for all staff members of RCHS. They served Chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, and rolls all from Copper Kettle. They stood for three lunch periods and served any staff member who came in to eat. It was great to see staff coming together to eat and just visit with each other. This is what FFA is!! FFA is about leadership, serving others, giving back, and being a good human! Thank you Mr. Orme and Mrs. Wagner for instilling these characteristics into the kids of the Rushville FFA! Thank you to the kids who take the unprompted lead in these types of things because of what you have learned through this great program!

Ms. Teague has been taking advantage of a few of the nice days we have had and ventured outside to teach a lesson on transcendentalist genre. When asked about it here is what she had to say.

My juniors have been studying the transcendentalist genre. We've been discussing Emerson and Thoreau and connecting the content and transcendental characteristics to more recent texts and modern day situations. To embrace our inner transcendentalist selves, we embarked out into nature and spread positive messages via quotes we painted on rocks. We hope children and adults alike will discover the rocks and continue to spread positivity as well.

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New Amazing Opportunities for students at RCHS. We offer the Indiana College Core by offering 26 different Dual Credit courses in several different areas. Students can graduate with 30 college credit hours that will apply at ALL INDIANA PUBLIC COLLEGES and even some private colleges like UIndy!! Best thing is this one year of college credit for FREE !! Click the link below to get more information!!

STOPit - Open the PDF and read about our new Anonymous Reporting System. This online anonymous reporting system is designed to deter bullying, discrimination, and other inappropriate or unsafe behaviors.

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